The former FBI lawyer who admitted to fabricating evidence against a former Donald Trump associate during the Trump-Russia investigation has been restored to “good standing” status by the District of Columbia Bar.
Kevin Clinesmith was restored despite being a convicted felon who has not yet finished his probation.
Clinesmith was suspended “based upon his conviction of a serious crime in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia,” the bar said at the time.
Clinesmith has since been restored to “good standing” status, according to the bar’s website.
A spokeswoman for the bar told The Epoch Times in an email that the organization “does not handle or issue statements pertaining to disciplinary matters of its members.”
Page declined to comment.
Clinesmith was the first person charged by John Durham, who was at the time a U.S. attorney and is now a special counsel attempting to root out the fraud and corruption that took place when federal authorities launched the Trump-Russia investigation.
John Ratcliffe, the former director of national intelligence, said recently he believes “there will be many indictments based on the intelligence that I gave to John Durham and that I have seen.”